The dark wind

214 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1982 by Harper & Row.

ISBN:
978-0-06-014936-9
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OCLC Number:
7738198

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Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.Officer Jim Chee becomes trapped in a deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clues: an airplane's mysterious crash in the nighttime desert, a bizarre attack on a windmill, a vanishing shipment of cocaine. Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police is trapped in the deadly web of a cunningly spun plot driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.

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Subjects

  • Chee, Jim (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Police -- Southwestern States -- Fiction
  • Navajo Indians -- Fiction
  • Southwestern States -- Fiction